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Hey everyone!
As I mentioned, my next long form YouTube video is going to be about the Princess Bride. If any of you are fellow creatives, I’m sure you’re familiar with how often projects can take on a life of their own. The script has now turned into a 45 minute cozy experience where I share just exactly what it is about the Princess Bride that makes it an (almost) perfect movie.
And I’m still not done with the script.
This will definitely be my longest video yet and it may actually come in at 60 minutes long. Maybe longer?
All of that to say that I’m working very hard on getting it finished so bear with me in the coming days as my editor and I continue to work on the video.
I’m also very excited to share that I’m booked solid until August on voice acting projects and will be in LA this month for the screening of the film “Garbage People” where I’ll also be participating in a cast Q&A.
Things are wonderfully busy and I’m so grateful!
As a thank you for your patience, I’d like to share a little sneak peek of the script with you below.
Enjoy!
-Tawny
How to Make an (Almost) Perfect Movie
(Scene gets progressively cozier as I grab a blanket, a stuffed animal, a bowl of popcorn - could add more stuffed animals to the shot each time we cut to me on screen )
Hi! How are you today? Are you drinking water? Or at least something water adjacent? Dont worry im proud of you either way, because i know you're trying.
I need this preposterously large 64 ounce bottle to make sure I get enough water myself.
So let’s all grab our favorite blanket, get cozy, and hydrated because today I want to talk a little bit about a film that I think, without a doubt, ticks all the boxes for a near perfect movie experience. A movie that picks you up when you get knocked down and dusts you off and hands you a little candy bar. A film that is the butter to the dry popeyes biscuit that is life. If the cure for depression came in movie form, this would be it.
There are a lot of commentary channels dedicated almost entirely to talking about terrible movies, youtube empires built on trashing popular franchises with tropes you see far too often in the industry and creators that jump on viral trends of trashing whatever movie recently released and tanked at the box office. And those hot takes are funny and I think completely necessary, but I also think it's affected how we view film critically and the media literacy of every generation who grew up online. But I already talked about that in a different video. No, today i'm going to take a little time to simply gush about a movie that is so well done that it is almost (clip of vizzini saying inconceivable)
But because I am on the internet, and I'm talking about a movie, I am contractually obligated to share the one problem I think it has. But trust me when I say, for the most part, this is just going to be a love letter to what I think is one of the best movies ever made.
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The Princess Bride was an almost Perfect Movie
The princess bride is a 1987 film written by William Goldman and directed by Rob Reiner(insert south park clip of rob reiner saying “my gooo my precious goo” and melting) It was based off a 1973 book of the same name by the same aforementioned screenwriter william goldman and one of the reasons it feels so heart felt, original and sincere is because of that. with a lot of Hollywood adaptations, the person who wrote the source material and the person who writes the movie are usually two different individuals. Take the watchmen for instance, or the shining. Both are iconic in their own right but the authors who wrote the source material were not fans of the film adapted versions, believing they corrupted the original vision for their stories. In the case the novelist who wrote the princess bride and the head writer for the film were the same person, which allowed for a more direct translation from one medium to another. Every bit of the story feels completely necessary. Every piece of dialogue has purpose and every scene has intention behind it. nothing feels out of place. From beginning to end not one moment of the film feels like the afterthought of someone whose goal was to adapt someone else's work to make it into a blockbuster movie.
The story itself is set in the renaissance era, in the fictional country of florin. A young woman named buttercup who, after losing the love of her life to pirates, is arranged to be married to an absolute tool named prince humperdink. She's understandably emotionally devastated and is desperate to find a way out of the wedding. But what she doesnt know is that her true love is secretly alive, and is on a mission to reunite with her and escape the country before the ceremony takes place. Along the way this man encounters various villains and assassins, in addition to every other kind of danger you could imagine. But with skill and just a dash of luck he seems to consistently overcome any and all obstacles, fueled by the greatest motivation there is. True love.
The premise is so simple and digestible that it makes practically every other movie look like Inception by comparison. Or really, any confusing Christopher Nolan movie. That guy just loves to over complicate a plot and confuse his audience into liking his movies. The genius of the plot is that it IS a story that has been told millions of times since the beginning of fiction. A man and a woman love each other, and so the man sets out to rescue her from a castle.
Well, at least the movie is kind of about that. In truth the movie is set in the now heavily nostalgic 1980s, and tells the story of a young boy who's sick at home on a school day whos grandpa comes to visit him and brings along one of his favorite books as a gift and wants nothing more than to read it to him. Which bums him out because like most kids, he would rather be playing video games. Some things truly never change.
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